From The Blog
30 January 2025
A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British friend Allen, inviting him to a music festival. When the US ban on TikTok briefly came into effect earlier this month, nearly three million ‘TikTok refugees’ signed up to the Chinese app RedNote (Xiaohongshu). Many of them were asked by Chinese users if they’d received a letter from Li Hua.
